CT Texture Analysis of Cervical Lymph Nodes on Contrast-Enhanced [18F] FDG-PET/CT Images to Differentiate Nodal Metastases from Reactive Lymphadenopathy in HIV-Positive Patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Hirofumi KunoN GargMuhammad M QureshiM N ChapmanBaojun LiS K MeibomMinh-Tam TruongKoji TakumiOsamu SakaiPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2019)
CT texture analysis may be useful as a noninvasive method of obtaining additional quantitative information to differentiate nodal metastases from disease-specific nodal reactivity in HIV-positive patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- hiv positive
- lymph node
- men who have sex with men
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance imaging
- south africa
- antiretroviral therapy
- computed tomography
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- magnetic resonance
- diffusion weighted imaging
- human immunodeficiency virus
- sentinel lymph node
- dual energy
- deep learning
- hiv infected
- convolutional neural network
- high resolution
- healthcare
- positron emission tomography
- mass spectrometry
- health information
- hepatitis c virus
- squamous cell carcinoma
- machine learning